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Make Your Own Polaroid Transfers on Wood
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2015
About this lesson
A six-step acrylic-medium transfer technique that moves a black-and-white photocopy of a Polaroid-style image onto a wood panel, covering paint choice, sanding, burnishing and the water-rubbing stage that reveals the transferred image reversed.
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